From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #836 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, July 24 2013 Volume 16 : Number 836 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: more from 2013 [Doug ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:42:08 -0400 From: Doug Subject: Re: more from 2013 Thank you for Austra...I'd never heard of them, and now I can't listen to them enough. Like you I don't much care for Olympia, but Feel It Break is just incredible. Wow. I'll have to try Olympia a bit more, but it's similar to with Sophie Hunger: can't get enough of the first record, but the rest? Meh. - --Doug On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Karen Hester wrote: > I'm similarly ho-hum over the new Patty Griffin and Austra. Patty has so > many different strengths - delicate heartbreak, rawking out, > perfectly-formed country songs, brilliantly-imperfect folk - and yet this > album and the last are a bit MOR and "yeah, that's nice enough" for me. > > I miss the gothic touches in Austra's Olympia, but will give it a few more > goes. The single is catchy, but there isn't enough oddness. > > I managed to enjoy several songs on Dido's new album because I'm not a fan, > so I can happily pick and discard. Sure some depressing stuff on there! > > Loving Thea too. Strong from beginning to end. > Karen > > From: JoAnn Whetsell > > Subject: more from 2013 > > Dido - Girl Who Got AwayHaven't listened to this much either, but that's > > because I found it difficult to get through the first few times (did I > ever > > get all the way through it?). It's more in the vein of her first 2 > albums, > > which is promising, but it doesn't really work. It's just kind of > > uninteresting and there's some bad rap. > > Austra - OlympiaThis hasn't gotten enough attention yet either, and I'm > > hoping > > it will connect as I LOVED Austra's debut and Katie Stelmanis' solo > album. > > This one is really... electronic? dance? It just feels really different > to > > me. > > Patty Griffin - American KidWhen I listen to it I find it okay, even good > > at > > times. But it almost never calls me to listen to it. I think this will > > end > > up down there with Children Running Through, which I rarely listen to or > > even > > remember. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #836 ***************************